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Luo Xi could see the dejection in the other person. The hermit really wanted to die, but he couldn't die now because he still had irreplaceable value.

"We have found the Black Stone. It is time to build a Black Stone Fortress that can summon Warp Demons. You will be our chosen [Angler]. Come on, cheer up. In the name of the Emperor, you must help us extract enough Warp intelligence from the demons."

Upon hearing this, all the shackles on the hermit fell off, and his modified and reinforced skin was worn out, revealing the black stone shell implants under his skin.

He broke free from his chains and walked out of the cage.

"In the name of the Emperor, as you wish."

Chapter 303: The Hermit: The Fisherman Never Leaves Empty (Please Subscribe)

The Hermit did not wear the power armor from the Word Bearers, nor did he change into the armor customized for him by the Ultramarines. He was just wearing a gray-white linen cloak, completely covering himself with the cloth.

Roche looked at the hermit with some worry, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind. The Word Bearer was about two meters and five meters tall, similar to the average Astartes, but he looked even thinner than Roche.

The dry skin outlines the black shell and bones, and the muscles have atrophied beyond recognition, looking like a walking skeleton.

"Why would you? The Emperor has never questioned your loyalty. You are able to be among traitors and still be loyal to the Emperor. This proves your own steadfastness."

"You should feel proud, not guilty. The betrayal of Lorgar and the Word Bearers was their own choice. The Emperor will not forgive them, but you are different because you have never betrayed."

Luo Xi really couldn't understand how these religious fanatics regarded torturing their own bodies as a standard of atonement. If physical pain could atone for sins, then why not just create a batch of clones of themselves and use them on an assembly line to atone for sins?

The Mechanicus has a complete cloning production line. In fact, many priests and sages are not born naturally, but come from the cloning laboratories within the Mechanicus.

"Because it will make me feel better, Roshi." The hermit was recovering his strength. He was drinking an energy porridge made of a mixture of high-concentration nutrients and ceramic steel particles, which was also the most common food consumed by the Astartes.

"I cannot tolerate that my faith has ever been tarnished. Under Lorgar's wrong leadership, I strayed from the Emperor's expectations. Even for a moment, it is unforgivable."

Astarte's powerful digestive system quickly wiped out the food. He looked more energetic, but his eyes were full of sadness.

"In fact, the magic of Black Stone is not a secret. In the Word Bearers Legion, Lorgar also discovered the specialness of Black Stone through communicating with some Warp creatures. However, what they mainly do is to use Black Stone to amplify the Warp, so that it is easier to resonate with the Sea of ​​Souls."

A squad of heavily armed Ultramarines escorted the Hermit, a necessary safeguard both to prevent his escape and to prevent assassination attempts by the Word Bearers.

Roche, the hermit, and some Mechanicus sages who specialized in studying Blackstone, all arrived at the Blackstone storage center on Mustafar by airship.

Nearly half of the black stones mined from Pandora were placed here in order to implement that big plan.

The remaining black stones, in addition to being taken away by oil men from various places for research, were placed on four Thundercloud-class planetary battleships, several Queen of Glory-class battleships and other large ships.

Luo Xi once thought, if the influence of the subspace is isolated and the risk of corruption is minimized, whether it is possible to use higher-level intelligent AI. After all, the combat power of the same warship when using intelligent AI and when using mechanical servants and artificial forces are completely different concepts.

Whether in terms of maneuverability, reaction speed, or accuracy of weapon arrays, warships controlled by artificial intelligence have complete superiority.

At the time, Guilliman chose to shelve the idea until the right time to discuss it.

And now, the time has come. They have enough Black Stone materials to distribute to various warships, which are adjusted into anti-subspace polarity Black Stone arrays, enough to fight against most Chaos corruption.

Luo Xi and the hermit walked on the aerial bridge of the Black Stone Storage Center. Below them were mountains of black stone deposits.

In order to collect enough black stones as quickly as possible, Roche blew up most of Pandora's magnificent floating mountains to collect the black stones contained in them.

"There are so many black stones. Even if the Word Bearers searched everywhere, they would not have such a quantity."

"You are very lucky to find so many."

The hermit sighed and said that some of the Word Bearers within the Legion had received direct orders from Lorgar, ordering them to find black stone minerals in order to better complete the Warp Summoning Ritual.

"What should we do now? It's up to you, Hermit." Luo Xi looked at the Hermit, waiting for the master of the subspace to speak.

When it came to his professional field, the hermit suddenly seemed much more energetic. It was just summoning demons. The Word Bearer was particularly good at this.

But in the past, he was driven by Lorgar's orders to summon the malicious beings in the warp. He released the most magical and terrifying monsters created by imagination in the Sea of ​​Souls, and let them greedily devour the flesh and souls of humans.

But now, his position has changed. He will summon demons for the purpose of fighting those terrible things for mankind, and let these things that have no so-called morality at all see the meanness and shamelessness of mankind.

Roshi directed the machines to move the black stone onto the transport ship. They could not summon demons on such an important forging world as Mustafar.

The location for summoning the demon was chosen to be a small star anchored in orbit around Mustafar.

The engineering machinery quickly built a Blackstone Fortress using blackstone, ceramic steel and plastic steel, and inside would be the altar they built to summon demons.

The hermit picked up his pen. He had previously told Luo Xi that some special raw materials were needed as ritual items.

For example, the last drop of blood shed by the Traitor Astartes on the battlefield, the ritual dagger captured during the Battle of Calth, and the red sand on Nuceria, the home planet of the Traitor Primarch Angron.

These seemingly irrelevant things actually have their own meaning in mysticism. These are based on a complex mystical knowledge system and are the summary of long experience.

In Luo Xi's opinion, this can indeed be described as witchcraft.

The Hermit commands those powerful modified robot servants. These soulless creatures, created by removing the brain lobes of guilty people and injecting large amounts of strengthening hormones and undergoing transformation surgeries, carry out his orders in an orderly manner.

"These ritual arrangements cannot be performed mechanically. The ideal situation is to have living sacrifices complete the arrangement of the altar, and then kill all the sacrifices on the arranged altar."

As the hermit spoke, he began to write and draw on the altar built of black stones.

His pen, dipped in a paint made from the blood of traitors and the red sand of Nuceria, continued to write texts from the Great Word Bearer.

Although Lorgar betrayed, the many scriptures and books he wrote in the past still have indelible value. The Primarch's wisdom has a deep understanding of the Warp, so much so that later generations only need to borrow a little to better mobilize the power of the Warp.

After all, Lorgar betrayed the Emperor, but his "Words of the Holy Spirit" did not betray him. Today, Lorgar may not be able to refute himself who wrote the "Words of the Holy Spirit".

The hermit wrote very quickly, leaving a series of strange runes and many blasphemous warp marks on the surface of the black stone. The only one Roshi could recognize was an eight-pointed star symbol.

As more and more runes were left behind by the hermit, the black stone began to emit a dim psychic light. The polarity of this extremely special material was being turned to the side of amplifying the subspace.

A chilly air began to spread from the center of the altar. The hermit finished writing the last rune and threw his pen to the ground.

The splashing ink disappeared the moment it hit the ground, and bursts of strange whispers came from the surrounding air, as if the murmuring ghost in the deepest dream was swimming past the ears.

In front of Luo Xi's eyes, many illusory twisted and wriggling tentacle monsters suddenly appeared. Those bodies were neat and regular black cubes, but the things with strange tentacles extending from the six corners seemed to have noticed the changes in the environment and began to swim around and observe at will.

Accompanied by an indescribable howl similar to a woman's voice, an extremely dazzling pink-purple beam of light appeared on the black stone altar, and the hysterical intention of the subspace was revealed.

Things of unspeakable evil roam the Warp, chaotic and disorderly, evil and unspeakable.

With his naked eyes, Roche saw countless black planets that seemed to be far away, yet seemed to be right in front of him.

The energy of the subspace disturbed the surrounding space and time wantonly, but was confined within the scope of the altar.

The shadow of a subspace creature slowly crawled across the background, leaving behind a huge shadow like a mountain.

The hermit did it, and next, he would actually summon the qualified Warp Demon according to Roshi's instructions.

Chapter 304: The Mission That Will Never Be Decrypted (Please Subscribe)

This was the first time that Roche had looked directly at the Warp without the protection of Geller's stance. Given human mental resistance, the only outcome of facing the Warp was complete madness, with consciousness destroyed by the aftermath of the Sea of ​​Souls.

Only humans with the strongest wills can maintain their identity after coming into contact with the energy of the warp and defeat the inner demons activated by the influence of the warp.

However, due to the limitations of the Black Stone Altar, the opened Warp rift was limited to this point, and its power was confined and restricted, like a raging flood isolated outside a dam.

To be on the safe side, Roche assembled five hundred of the most elite and victorious soldiers, and even their leader Grod was in charge in person.

The head of the think tank, Titus Prieto, has arrived at the satellite with the think tank troops. The leader of the Untouchables, Dulles, has also arrived. After summoning the demons, it is time for them to perform.

As per custom, Luo Xi was accompanied and protected by Sharokin, and the Eldar prophet Uslan also arrived here.

The hermit chanted aloud the prayer used to summon a daemon of the Warp, pointing to a being ancient enough that he had dealt with it once before, when he was still in the Word Bearers Legion.

It was an extremely cunning and brutal Warp demon. Its greed for souls and flesh was extraordinary even among its peers. Of course, it was also ancient enough and was not a newly born Warp creature.

Roche's goal is to extract enough intelligence from the Warp Demon, especially the actions currently being taken by the traitor Horus in the galaxy.

Due to the impact of the Ruinstorm, astropathic communications throughout the galaxy were disrupted, and much of Macragge's knowledge of the outside world came from the people who saw the lights of Pharos and fled here.

They told of their own experiences and of terrible things happening elsewhere, but the information was too fragmented to serve as effective intelligence support.

After all, it is a complete daydream to expect some refugees to know the military deployment and strategic direction of Warmaster Horus.

They didn't know the battle situation in the solar galaxy, where the traitors had fought to, and which legions were the main attacking and which legions were the supporting ones.

The most important thing is the movements of those fallen Primarchs. After the Shadow Crusade was thwarted, Lorgar the Great Bearer fled back to the Warp with Angron, who had ascended to demon status, and they have never been found since. No one knows what they are doing.

But the Warp Demons are different. They originally live in the Warp, and the storms they stir up are not as lethal to the natives of the Sea of ​​Souls.

Because of the temporal and spatial disorder of the subspace, these demons may come from other regions and may know the situation in other places.

The ritual is ongoing, and the hermit mobilizes his psychic power to call upon the other party's presence.

He could feel that the evil Warp creature was approaching, and because the Word Bearers had previously reached a cooperation with the other party, the greedy guy was coming without any vigilance.

In that thing's view, the weak believers in the material world need to borrow its power, and in return, it can also get a rich sacrifice of human flesh and souls.

Creatures of the Warp never suffer losses.

Although humans are not as delicious as the Eldar, they are at least a precious dessert, and they have the advantage of being large in quantity and filling. In the subspace full of monsters and demons, there are too many beings who need them.

The High Heaven has never been a peaceful place. In the undulating ether currents, there are too many subspace creatures devouring and preying on each other, and those weak beings struggling to survive are extremely difficult to capture.

The ceremony finally ended, and all that was left was to wait for time to pass and then wait for the results.

This is indeed a technical job. Even if they find the black stone and can use its characteristics to create a controllable subspace rift, how can they accurately find the required object?

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he whispered something to the hermit.

“What we are doing now is challenging the bottom line of the empire, hovering on the edge of the red line, and we may cross the line at any time.

Others will not understand that we are trying to obtain intelligence from the demons of the warp, they will only think that we are conducting some unknown transactions with these corrupted beings. "

"These will remain confidential forever and will never be declassified."

The hermit nodded calmly. He did think that the Primarchs were playing with fire. Humans often thought they could control the power of the Warp, but were often backfired by the other side and became slaves of the Warp.

He can only do his best to minimize the risk.

Luo Xi continued, "But everything is possible. As long as we have done this, it will leave traces on the timeline and may be leaked in the future. Therefore, if this tiny probability occurs, we will put all the blame on you."

"It was you who bewitched Guilliman and everyone in the Second Empire into carrying out your evil plan, attempting to summon the demons of the Warp to subvert this newly created empire."

"By then, everyone will know your name. Countless people will accuse and insult you. You will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Even thousands of years later, people will still remember you - a Word Bearer fool named the Hermit, who was tried for playing with witchcraft and demons."

The hermit's face remained calm, as if what Luo Xi was talking about was not him.

"I know you may not care about your posthumous reputation, but no one will remember that you were loyal to the Emperor.

No one will remember your efforts for the continuation of the empire and the lives of more people.

No one will remember that you risked your life to extract intelligence from those demonic beings of the Warp."